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Breaking Bad creator's "genre-bending" and mysterious show confirms release date and title with first-look trailer

Pluribus is on its way.

Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus on the phone looking shocked

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Published: Friday, 25 July 2025 at 8:00 pm

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Breaking Bad fans, it's time to buckle in. Vince Gilligan has come knocking once more.

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The creator of the iconic Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul series will return this year with his new sci-fi drama Pluribus, starring Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn, on Apple TV+.

The nine-part series, which the streamer describes as a "genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness", will release its first two episodes on 7th November.

Alongside Seehorn, Pluribus stars Karolina Wydra and Carlos-Manuel Vesga and guest stars Miriam Shor and Samba Schutte.

A first-look clip, titled Happiness Is Contagious, already sets the tone for the series, as we see a character behind a counter, meticulously picking up donuts and licking them one by one, before placing them back in a box with a label that reads: "Help yourself." Lovely!

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Meanwhile, a first-look image shows Seehorn's character worriedly listening to something on the phone.

Gilligan previously teased his new show, which has already received a two-season order right off the bat, to Variety, confirming it'll also be set in Albuquerque like Breaking Bad, but added: "There’s no crime, and no methamphetamine."

He went on to say: "The world changes very abruptly in the first episode, and then it is quite different. And the consequences that that reaps hopefully provide drama for many, many episodes after that."

Vince Gilligan in a suit smiling

Vince Gilligan. JB Lacroix/WireImage

He added: "I have no prediction as to how folks will react to it — whether they’ll love it or hate it, or somewhere in the vast in-between. But I know it’s a story that interests me."

Seehorn later told Deadline, saying it's "some of the stuff that audiences have loved about his writing, where it’s really rich characters but also him playing with the idea of tropes and genres and tone, and switching, like injected humor in a very dark moment — in this new show, he pushes that to a limit that was both very thought-provoking and upsetting sometimes, and other times so, so funny.

"It really swings for the fences. I had so much fun."

Pluribus will begin streaming on Apple TV+ on 7th November.

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Louise GriffinSci-Fi and Fantasy Editor

Louise Griffin is the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Editor for Radio Times, covering everything from Doctor Who, Star Wars and Marvel to House of the Dragon and Good Omens. She previously worked at Metro as a Senior Entertainment Reporter and has a degree in English Literature.

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